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Morning, I think the people with masks on are wearing them as a disguise because they’re embarrassed to be there or in the case of the women they’re trying to hide their Chloe style moustache. Trying to look like the leader could well be considered treasonous to this rabble.
Maybe they’re starting to realise that eating macrobiotic food, not washing, and smoking pot creates a miasma that lingers, but rather than alter their way of life they’d just cover the stench by wearing a mask.
Honestly, none of them are so attractive I’d wish for the mask to be removed anyway.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Thankfully, ugly begets ugly.
And here I was thinking the latest round of Bird Flu had been released in the building and all the Foul there were likely to die from it.
Looks like the Ngai Tahu’s got a bit of a wake-up call. wonder what the plonkers in Queenstown thought.
Earthquake, aftershocks rattle South Island, damage to be assessed at daylight
he state highway into Milford has been partly closed while damage is assessed after a strong earthquake last night near Te Anau.
Aftershocks continued to rattle the region overnight following the quake, which initially measured magnitude 6.3 before being revised down to 5.9.
It struck 40km north of Te Anau at 9.14pm at a depth of 53km. GeoNet received more than 20,000 reports of the quake.
A tsunami warning was issued and evacuations ordered for coastal areas, before the National Emergency Management Agency cancelled the order, saying the tsunami threat had passed.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/earthquake-rattles-south-island-during-marcus-lush-live-broadcast/FYLCAMC3KNGAZKUIE3SWYTQBKM/
Morons. You need a 7.5 plus to generate a Tsunami. ( and the right type of movement) More effing fear mongering.
youre a dumb piece of south african shit.
i suggest you go to milford sound abd a few of the others and look up.
there could be a tsunami with zero earthquake, an earthquake certainly ups the risk.
a mate is involved with the tsunami plans in there, he told the commitee the correct response is grab
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361007244/64-earthquake-rocks-south-island
Marcus the Lush was on air wondering whether to tough it out, run, or hide under the table!
New research reveals red meat’s outsized role in the economy.
For many New Zealanders, red meat comes neatly cut, weighed, wrapped and priced, from the supermarket chiller.
They probably don’t realise their kilo of beef or lamb contributes well over 120,000 jobs and $48 billion to our economy each year. Those chops and steaks are the muscle-building protein for our nation’s bank balance.
New research by Business and Economic Research (BERL) has uncovered the huge contribution the red meat sector is making to New Zealand’s economy and our communities – and it extends far beyond the farm gate.
Commissioned by Beef + Lamb New Zealand and the Meat Industry Association, BERL’s research shows the red meat sector directly and indirectly supports GDP of $17.5 billion (4% of New Zealand’s total GDP), and total expenditure of $48.7 billion.
The industry employs 120,580 New Zealanders – representing one in 20 total national jobs – with every $1 million spent by New Zealand’s red meat sector supporting about five jobs across the economy in 2025.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sponsored-stories/the-48b-industry-hiding-in-your-supermarket-chiller/KCJFECBYVVB4NEVZ3MQBBE2ZNQ/
Bird flu pandemic?this is how they did it last time
HOW THEY ENGINEERED THE FAKE PANDEMIC
1. China released staged footage of people “dropping dead” in the streets; scenes never witnessed anywhere else in the world before or after December 2019.
2. A PCR test was rolled out that could not determine whether someone was actually sick. The vast majority of results were false positives.
3. The claim of asymptomatic transmission was heavily promoted to justify restrictions on healthy people and to force mass testing on the entire population; which led to tens of millions of false positive test results.
4. Tech companies and media outlets were mobilized to censor dissent and rebrand inconvenient truths as “misinformation.”
5. Behavioral psychologists were brought in to design fear-based messaging specifically intended to secure public compliance.
6. To keep the illusion of a deadly pandemic alive, they required excess mortality data.
7. Ordinary mild respiratory symptoms alone could not produce those numbers, so the population was subjected to sustained psychological pressure capable of triggering mass psychogenic illness.
8. Relentless fear messaging kept cortisol levels chronically elevated, weakening immune function, particularly among the elderly.
9. Social isolation, delayed medical care, and lockdown policies then generated the excess deaths needed to prop up the narrative.
10. Cloth and surgical masks were suddenly declared effective, something no serious public-health authority had previously recommended for ordinary respiratory pathogens, turning every face into a walking advertisement for fear.
11. People were conditioned to remain isolated “until the vaccine was ready,” buying authorities additional time to expand control.
12. Billions were injected with an experimental product that was claimed to stop both infection and transmission.
13. When those claims collapsed, the goalposts were moved: “Your shot won’t work unless the unvaccinated also take it.”
14. New “variants” were announced every few months to justify an endless series of booster campaigns.
15. A new condition – “long COVID” – was introduced to reframe mounting vaccine side effects.
16. Pharmaceutical companies recorded unprecedented profits, shielded by government contracts and complete legal immunity.
17. Anyone who raised objections was silenced, deplatformed, investigated, or publicly discredited.
18. Once the story became too strained to maintain, the pandemic was abruptly declared over, and the entire episode was treated as if it had never happened.
NEVER FORGET
Well one thing’s for sure, I won’t be getting the jab this time round. Even if I’m farting feathers.
You missed the rollout of deadly treatment protocols, the definitions of covid deaths and the banning of effective treatments.
How easy would it be a second time? We have the same politicians in charge who were right behind the last one.
Mr “safe and effective” who said liarbour didn’t go far enough, is still there.
The bit that gets me is none of them, their staff, or parliamentary hanger ons
fell over with the dreaded lergy. Must have been bullshit!
The grifters come in many guises, it seems.
This one is as bad as they get.
Australian public agencies face media heat over A$80,000 taxpayer spending on Jacinda Ardern-headlined women’s leadership summitSeveral top Australian public agencies are in the media spotlight for spending about $A80,000 ($96,000) on an upcoming women’s leadership summit headlined by Dame Jacinda Ardern.
If you want to know what the audience is going to look like just scroll to the top of the page.
The women will have better moustaches than the men.
Nah that lot wouldn’t go unless the taxpayer coughed up for their trip
Unfortunately I think the poor Aussie tax payers already have.
Hold the phone. Did you say David Seymour wants to ban something?
: Not wanting to be outshone by Christopher Luxon’s social media ban, freedom-loving David Seymour has entered the chat with his own prohibition proposal: Banning smartphones for kids.
Hold the phone. Seymour’s proposing a ban?
No, we have not entered an alternate reality. Seymour has not been hacked. He did really say we should have a think about whether to ban the sale of smartphones to under-16s.
“Parliament could pass a law defining what constitutes a ‘dumb phone’ suitable for a person under 16. Prohibit the purchase, possession, and supply of smartphones for under-16s,” Seymour suggested during a speech to youth development charity, the Graeme Dingle Foundation.
Winston Peters almost immediately piped up in a tweet – that one had to double take to check the author as it sounded as though it had come from Seymour himself – calling the idea “totalitarian”.
“Why are some parties thinking it’s now an acceptable option for the government to take away parents’ rights to make decisions for their children?”
The ban is not formal policy, Seymour’s apparently just thinking out loud. But it’s also not wholly unintentional.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361007192/hold-phone-did-you-say-david-seymour-wants-ban-something
LIke fire, a good servant, and a wicked master.
To take Iaasb’s point, one does not let kids play with matches.
The house, the car, family and ulitimately & the kid can be consumed.
Reveals great truths, actual facts, that then can not be so easily hidden away.
While here too, they have “kite-fliers”, although a lot more regimented in this case.
They really do see the dangers of cell phones. 😎
….. Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, phone footage has repeatedly captured images the government could not control: protests, arrests, public punishments and complaints from inside hospitals.
The same device that helps families seek medical advice can also expose mistreatment. …..
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/10/g-s1-132396/smartphones-taliban-afghanistan-ban
The taliban looking to keep people from some truths, that may crack open their system.
Ulitimately to wrap them in a “kindness” of “stone-age” belief system.
so by the naysayers logic we should unban all the other stuff then? decrim drugs for any age, buy cigis, vapes, allow driver licences, legalise sex for any age (the greens will be onboard) allow u16s to own firearms, buy booze… yea we restrict or prohibit stuff that creates harm.
please list all the actual benefits of kids owning smartphones, especially list the ones that were absolutely crucial to you old farts when you were a kid 🤣…. oh dear, you mean kids can actually survive and thrive without them?
imo the pros of a ban for u16s far outweigh the cons.
treat them like a drug or a firearm, to be fair the phones do more damage and cause more deaths to our u16s then drugs guns etc.
yea its nanny state but most parents have dropped the ball on this one, too complacent and very little control of online activity.
When ya live in the backwoods, all ya need is an axe, matches and a knife. Not like that in a city and a modern environment that you have to grow up in and survive in.
The problem is not the phones, its the crap on them.
i agree but stop the crap on them then, stop it in a way that vpn etc cant negate it, stop them in a way that dosent affect every other kiwi?…. solution, age restrict the device itself not the content.
a ban would apply to everyone, this isnt a ban. its an age restriction.
i dont remember outrage at age restrictions preventing me buying or renting r16 or r18 movies or magazines when i was younger.
still cant buy a porno under 18 yet we give 8yrs olds full unsupervised access to hardcore porn.
theres great upset if a van pulls over and offers candy to a kid or tries to groom them…. yet once again we offer the pedo creep full unsupervised access to kids 24/7.
a smartphone is a handheld predator with candy and any bribe that can be used…. the predator could be a tech company or and actual sex offender.
then theres the bullying, mental health toll, addiction like behaviour, decrease in learning and social skills etc etc.
kids with smartphones and internet are costing us billions in harm and lost potential, we should at least make an attempt to do something…. the social media ban is a token gesture, not even the slightest bit effective. age restricting the owning of the device would be far better.
you old coots need to get yourself some 8-15yr old kids fulltime and deal with the online shit. blog shitfights are fucking tame.
As I said yesterday S.B. – I quite agree. This was floated by Ani O’Brien and it looked a good idea then and it still does.
my old boss/farm owner from my contract milking days had the right idea…
his 14yr old grandson came to visit from auckland, spent 24/7 on his iphone and ignored grandad and wouldnt leave the house etc.
grandad had a gutsful, walked him out to the nearest fencepost with the kids phone and hammer, he made the kid smash his phone 🤣.
the kid ended up doing farmwork, learning to milk cows, drive tractors, ride motorbikes and extended his stay another 2wks cuz he had so much fun.
i was out front of cowshed at the time he made the kid smash the phone (his house was bout 50m away) was one of the most hilarious things id watched, took him 3 or 4 hestitant dummy swings and then once smashed he broke down wailing for a few minutes.
Where is the video of that. Surely you whipped out your smart phone and recorded such an event?
nah, i dont even think i owned one then. i was a very late adopter and hate the fucking things… although i do seem to use the pos alot nowdays
I worked with a middle aged Dutch guy, who from my point of view seemed to be a whizz with computers.
Picked a couple of computers at the rubbish dump, reassemblied them, reprogrammed so they were operating above then norm of those times.
I mentioned that he must have been playing with computers since he was a kid.
No; not until he was 16, last year of his high school, did he even first touch a computer.
From then when he went to University, he found it to be a good little money earner, as computers used to totally crash out, that needed sort of technical people to put them on track.
Then aspect opened up with his friends in increasing the power of those current computers.
Yet as I got to know him, found he was a reasonable handyman, carpentry, metal work, sort of a very good “jack of all trades”.
One good trait, was his written planning on a project, detail of what was necessary, so it was good to run past others, to spot any issues or concerns.
Bought up on a farm, I would call a livestyle block, helping his Dad & Uncle on some considerable projects.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol in a way that’s previously only been available with expensive, injectable drugs.
The drug from Merck was OK’d on Thursday for patients with artery-clogging cholesterol that persists even after taking statins, the standard medications for cutting heart attack risk. Merck will market its pill under the brand name Lipfendra.
It’s the first noninjectable medication that works by blocking a liver protein called PCSK9. That protein limits the body’s ability to clear cholesterol from the blood, and biotech injectables targeting it have been available from Amgen and other drugmakers for more than a decade. But patient access has been stymied for years by high prices, insurance restrictions and limited prescribing by doctors.
Statins block some of the liver’s production of cholesterol and are the cornerstone of treatment. But even at the highest doses, many people need additional help lowering their LDL, or bad, cholesterol enough to meet medical guidelines.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361007294/fda-approves-firstofitskind-pill-cut-cholesterol-hig
“While traditionally viewed solely as a cardiovascular risk factor, recent research highlights a “cholesterol paradox” in older adults (particularly those over 80 or 85), where higher levels of LDL and total cholesterol are associated with increased longevity, lower mortality from cancer and infection, and potentially better cognitive health. “
from a quick Google search.
Once you’ve hit the late seventies what hasn’t killed you makes you stronger!
The smell of unwashed bodies?
The one with the yellow shirt in the front looks like Ardern in her past.
An unkempt chip wrapper?
Third pic. – lol. Tarquin beat me to it.
Geeze, no wonder NZ is in a mess if this is their ridiculous ability to run a country, more like a circus 🤡 🤡. Does Willy actually say anything of substance?
Ryan Bridge with National’s Paul Goldsmith and Labour’s Willie Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r5v70fsK3M
Labour and National clash over move-on orders | Ryan Bridge TODAY
If pies are on the menu …where’s well fed Meg?
haha jokes on them in the first meme, a couple of green party freaks misunderstood the meaning of “always blow on the pie”
eat up ya greedy cunts
They are multiplying. Another light fingered Native on a journey of prosperity or is it just plain greed?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361006958/former-tv-personality-allegedly-stole-more-1m-including-taxpayer-funds
trusting a clack bunt around money is as dumb as hiring a pedo to be a babysitter… they just cant resist temptation.
the funny thing is that almost all those clack bunt thieves dont do anything wise with the money, its all usually blown on absolute shit so their lives are no better off from it.
whats yours is mine stuff.
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We’ve been advised by BSI that the new import health standard for fresh blueberries from Peru, Chile, Mexico, Morocco and the USA poses a major human health risk. See below:
Media Release: 16 July 2026
New Zealand could experience a major e-coli outbreak such as that troubling health services in the US, if the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) goes ahead with plans to allow fresh blueberries into New Zealand.
The nation’s leading experts on pests and diseases, the Bioeconomy Science Institute (BSI), says the plan creates a major risk of products infected with foodborne pathogens.
A report by BSI to Blueberries New Zealand in June 2026 said MPI must address the danger of imported fresh berries carrying notifiable foodborne pathogens such as Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia duodenalis, and Cryptosporidium spp.
In America right now, a major outbreak of e-coli has been traced to frozen organic blueberries imported from Chile – one of the countries which will be allowed to send fresh organic blueberries to New Zealand.
The report says the pathogens are resistant to disinfection, washing and refrigeration. They recommended microscopic inspection of imported fruit for presence of oocyst[1] or testing fruit washings for the pathogens. Producers in the five countries exporting to New Zealand should be required to ensure hygienic practices by field workers, and prevented from using animal waste as fertiliser, and infected water for irrigation.
The report recommended that MPI not allow import of organic blueberries as no available controls would prevent the pathogens. It also condemned MPI’s risk assessment for its “key systemic knowledge gaps or data deficiencies”. See less
Take your pick;– e-coli or hepatitis?
after an outbreak of Hepatitis A associated with frozen berries in 2022 and 2023.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350254744/hepatitis-outbreak-sparks-rule-change-imported-berries
Rest assured as it is pointed out that New Zealand:—-
“robust and in line with international best practice,”
All in line with expensive clip-boards & tick-boxes
Saw a report on the horticulture and agriculture soil China has saturated with heavy metals and other toxins due to their massive industrialisation without regulation. All Chinese products have absorbed these.
Since NZ growers have been dropped in favour of global supply I’ve avoided frozen vegetables.
Green logic 101.
Photo must’ve been taken on Veet day at at the rug muncher mansion.
Burt Reynolds gave his all to grow a muff buffer like Chloe’s but he died a broken man. 🙂
Very astute observation, Naaska, but fucking funny.
Sir Bill Birch, a former senior minister in two National Governments, has died at 92.
His most senior role was Minister of Finance from 1993 to 1999 in the fourth National Government, serving Prime Ministers Jim Bolger, who became a close friend, and Jenny Shipley.
He also served in the third National Government, where, as Minister for National Development, he oversaw the construction of a string of energy projects that came to be known as “Think Big”.
In a statement, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon paid tribute to the late politician.
“Sir William Birch was a giant of the National Party and delivered more for our country than he would ever take credit for,” Luxon said.
“His close to 30 years in Parliament coincided with a period of significant reform as we modernised our economy and grappled with who we are as a country. Throughout, Sir William maintained his legendary diligence and work ethic, knowing that the sacrifices of public life were worth it to leave a better country for future generations.
e entered Parliament the same year as Bolger, and the pair forged a strong political partnership.
Speaking as he left Parliament, Birch said when he entered there was “no Canterbury Crusaders, no Super 12, no professional rugby, no Sky TV, not even any colour televisions.
“Star Wars was another five years away.
“There were no cappuccinos, no bars, no cafes. There were pubs and cafeterias.”
Labour was in government in 1972. While Robert Muldoon won the election for National in 1975, Birch had to wait until the government was re-elected in 1978 to get a position in the Beehive (which finished construction in 1977).
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/former-finance-minister-sir-bill-birch-dies-at-92/3XQUVNYEE5BGDP5CRMZ3T5AN5Y/
He also removed the unions from their perch.Best thing he did.
He was the ultimate technocrat, power behind the scenes & “Minister of Everything”.
He employed me for quite a few years on the Think Big Projects.
Paid bloody good too. Mind you we did two weeks work in one week.
Those projects remaining in the Naki are worth a visit. Bloody impressive.
find a bit more gas and it wll be all go again.
“Think Big” served the Taranaki area well. Motunui, Kapuni & the methanol plant at Waitara made New Plymouth a centre for engineering talent. But “Think Big” had its detractors & it represented a hell of a risk in an era when union intransigence held up every major project. (instance the boilermakers’ circus over the Wellington BNZ centre).
On balance I think National got it right. They borrowed a bit short of a billion dollars but the energy developments kept NZ going until the Green idiots gathered sufficient mass to torpedo each & every development.
We certainly got better value than the $180,000,000,000 of borrowings frittered away by Labour (2017 – 2023) on yap fests & consultants’ hot air.
The people who obsess about the size of the pie are never the ones who get up early and go to work in the kitchen to bake the pie.
If they are not citizens and are preaching hate, deport them.
That’s what the Saudis do and recommended in 2017.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1672242280539070
Works extremely well for S,A., as one would not be granted citizenship.
Saudi Arabian citizenship is among the most heavily restricted in the world, often deemed “nigh impossible”.
Even very good pious devout muslims from other countries will find the hoops are very difficult to gain citizenship in Saudi Arabia?
As it needs royal approval.
So ih the name of “humanity” we grant “human rights” as decreed by globalists, presided over by our treasonous academic ideologues persading politicians, so judges can set precedents.
That is done by first diluting that actually strips the original rights citizens used to have.
All done ratcheting off in the name of democracy.
Not KFC but…….
what if the chook was actually in kentucky?
with eyes like that and slow reflexs, that bird is prime candidate for a pcr test and hysteric bird flu response
Was this a bIack op?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jdc77cqeT7Q
It’s Really Weird
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